In the late Middle Ages: a servant living irregularly in lodgings in a royal palace, for instance after the departure of his master. Obsolete.
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| 释义 | society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > servant having care of bedchambers (13) chamber-deaconc1475 In the late Middle Ages: a servant living irregularly in lodgings in a royal palace, for instance after the departure of his master. Obsolete. chamberlain1587 A person in charge of the bedrooms at an inn. Also in figurative context. Cf. chambermaid, n. 2a. Obsolete. chamber man1623 (a) a man responsible for the care of the bedrooms of a house or hotel; cf. chambermaid, n. 2; (b) Manufacturing Technology a person who works with a… bedchamber-man1643 attributive, as bed-chamber candle, bedchamber plot, bedchamber-man. Subcategories:— boy (1) — woman or girl (5) — bedmaker (2) — service of chambermaid (1) |
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